Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-01-07
farm Copies.
MORE ABOUT CREAMERlES.

preaching when dairymen must decide
what disposition they will make of their
milk for the coming season, wish to
present few facts for their consider
alton.
1t will be remembered that maintain
ed year ago that there was more money
for the dairyman in the Cooley system of
cream gathering than in any other sys-
tenn, when run by competent persons of
sound business ideas. | think ! proved
it and believe can again and will leave
your readers to be the Judges.
Let us begin by examining what fac
tories have paid the last season. MIR. {.
f. smith, a patron of Mr.. A. ID. Evarts
factory AT New Haven, from May IL to
Sept. % delivered 30, 492 lbs. of milk
from IL cows. for which he received
S2ll 90. equal to 1923 cts. per hundred
pounds-Mr. Smith and two of his neigh
bors taking turns in carrying to the fac
tory. How much did this cost them in
time and wear and tear of teams? Will
any thoughtful dairyman say that it cost
less than 25c per day apiece, or $3.50
for the l3S days? l. it possible to hitch
up and drive to the factory twice day
for less than - cents per day? But |
will give all of the advantage, and esti-
mate that it cost them no more than it
would if they had hired it carried and
paid the average prices. find upon i'll
quiry among many patrons of different
factories that the price paid where
milk is carried to these centrifugal fac
tories is 81 per COW for the season for
one mile. l.50 for two miles and 81 for
three miles. Therefore will call it for
Mr.. Smith SIPS per COW for the 13S days.
This amounts to $40. Deduct this from
the s2l1.O9 and it leaves $l91 .09-equal
to 90 ID cents net per hundred pounds
of milk delivered. Mr.. Evarts and his
friends claim that the centrifugal makes
as much butter per 100 lbs. of milkas the
Cooley creamers if so. he should average
for the season to make pound of butter
from u lbs. of milk or 4 81 lbs. per 100
lbs. milk. This being true, Mr.. Evarts
patron received only - - cents per
pound of butter made for the entire
season.
The patrons of the following Cooley
cream-gatherng factories averaged to re-
ceive for the same months the following
net prices: Mapping, Conn, 2O.Slc;
Ipswich, Mass, 22.4lc; Amherst, Mass,
20.29 cts. Canton Center, Conn, 10 cts.
Wyh u "A
pound or 4-lOc more than Mr.. Evarts'
patron got. Perhaps some of your read
ers may say that the Cooley will not av-
erage to make a pound of butter from 81
pounds of milk. Let US see what it has
done and is doing. Mr.. Jared Booth.
Ferrisburgh, writes, Aug. l6, 1886: 81
weighed seven milkings set in the Cooley
dreamer, beginning July 10Th, with the
following results: Weight of milk, 94l
pounds; weight of butter. 81 ID pounds.
This makes an average of one pound of
butter to IS 27-l0O pounds of milk" Mr..
II. ;. Currier of Montgomery Center
writes. ".June 10, 1886, | commenced set
ting the milk in the Cooley creamer for
one week, set 1873 pounds, which made
65 pounds of butter, which is equal to IA
pound of butter to 81 pounds of milk"
Mr.. Gideon Spencer of Weybridge writes,
July IL, 1856, II commenced weighing
and setting milk in the Cooley dreamer
Jaly 3. and continued till got the cream
from so pounds of milk. Upon churn-
ing had 40 pounds of butter. which is
an average of pound of butter from
about 20 - pounds of milk. The wealth
err during this time was very hot and the
larger part of my dairy are young cows,
two and three years old" Mr.. c. ii.
Bush of Fairfax writes that, he ''set ll33
pounds of milk in the Cooley dreamer the
first week in July and made from it l9S
pounds of butter" This is equal to one
pound of butter from 20 S1-lO0 pounds of
milk. John l.. Rowley Il Son. propre-
tors of the whole-milk factory at West
vile Center, y. Y, writes, Dec. | 1, 1889,
as follows: I'VE have used the Cooley
dreamer. Davis swing chnrn and Eureka
butter worker in our factory of from 300
to 400 COWS for four years and like them
we'll. Wehave seen no process that we like
a. we'll. Our average for the past season
was one pound of butter from II pounds
of milk" Mr. II. p. Bidwell, superin-
tendent of the Canton (Conn.) creamery,
writes, July Is, 1856, that he has tested
their milk for six days and that the re-
suit shows that they average to make Il
pound of butter from 81 IA lbs. of milk
Mr.. II. w. Ladd, superintendent of the
Mapping Comm creamery, writes that a
test among their patrons shows that their
creamery averages pound of butter
from u lbs. of milk.
Please bear in mind these are not esti-
mates, but actual results from the rec
ords. | have cited figures from four
dairymen in this section; one whole-milk